Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-09
CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE.
How Slate Papers OF the President Are
Written sad Decentralization
Used IN Printing the Message
How Message was Presidential
Ego,ism as shown In MessHgss-A
Story of Grandfather Gossip.
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Cleveland wrote the greater part q bis
message himself, using 9 steel pen, and
scratching c # his thoughts in tiue tai
ian h2rJ. He is . rspld writer, snd cor
reefs his % aEuscrpt very little. The
printers have been Instructed 10 use the
gres,es- precautions, Sct an told that
wen the copy GOES 30 the government
printing office i is cat n into listle
pieces, 10 one Of which contains more
than Q sentence. These are handed TO
different [vre.setters, aud 70 oGe bus the
for, man OF tLe CIi3e has he nskiUg NJ
f re matter
TIE message has been in course Of
preparation ell summer, aud Ar. Ciev,-
lsnd nad begun 20 formulate i before he
went on MS western trip. H. has tsI,ed
with the leading states nen IL the party
IN regard 70 certain parts II il, ard s0iue
Of it wss gotten up with Speaker Carlisle
Z bile sitting o. the porch OF his COuatrJ
home.
President CIevelspd is G very prolific
message writer. His yetOes were ell
written by himself, and he peDned his last
Thanksgiving proclamation. He does 8
great amount Of clerical work, ard he
writes letters which other Presidents
give to their private secretaries.
President Lincoln dictated the most OF
his messages, and what he did write he
wrote in small hand, easily read. He
did not spoil his manuscript by revising
it, and such Of his writings SIS are In ex-
issence lock es though they had been
written by lady.
Johnson dictated au his messages, and
he could talk much better than he could
write. His forte WAS on the stump and
IN conversation, and rot at the desk. He
thought very fast, but wrote very slowly.
great part OF his messages were gotten
up in conversation with Jere Black aud 9
Tennessee friend, Judge Milligan, and,
speaking CT these, g large part Of every
Presidents NE sssge is inspired by other
than himself. A part of the S Cretary Ct
the Treasury's last report, which accom-
panied CIeYelanQ's message Lass yesr, WAS
supposed to have been written by N3pc0n
Marble, and not by Daniel Manning.
When Cleveland Was nominated it was
said that MantOI Marble and Dan Lock
wood wrote his letter Of acceptance; but
his messages stree then show that ne Is
SIMPLY able to do his own wiring, aGd
that nc can think rs well as he can write.
The Presidents message IS read in Con
grass at the first of the session. The
Senate and the House OF Representatives
have each copy in ~S9anusccipt,
and this is read our by II 81 clerk in q
droniug voice. Printed cop - the same
document lie on the desF the mem
berg, and they follow the : reatioG.
The message is brought ID "a Capitol by
Mr.. PrUden, TIE executive MI, and b.
is received at the doors Of Il Senate and
House, and SDTOuEces that 8hss q IleS-
sage from the President il HING. This
is the solemn form in the hate, where
the old grey-heired messeEMr, Captain
Isaac BasSett, tSkes the aTsssge trlW
Pruden and carries it to III Nv &C. PEST
dents chair Tee Vice-Pf Wen hands
il 20 tue clerk aud the cleI.. tya6s. {sss.
AZ the beginning of the goverumanb sH
messages were delivered bV me pres
dents II person, spd George Washington
rode in greet state 10 the capitol, in .
tour-horse coach with servants IN red
livery. In day CT two CJnGreEz
called upon him and Terlied 10
his address, and IL was per
maps the bitterest time il WGshirg>on's
lie when Congress refu ed to do this
He Was very unpopular a. the t.G.P, OF
account OF the jay treaty, and ~ was
prosecuted so by the newspapers, snd b7
his enemies in Congress-, that he sw0re
by c., thst nc would rathsr be in his
grave than in the presidency. Ba w)nld
rather be on his farm than the Emperor
of the world, and yet they We're charging
him with wanting TO be kiug.
WIEN he retired Congress refused TO
pass resolutions complimentary To him,
and Giles of Virginia, said thai che felt
10 regard or the President and hoped he
would retire" JIhu Randolph of Roam
Oke, at the same time, gave this toast at
diQner:"
George Washington, may he be damn
ed" and, upon outbursts OF indignation
following, he added the words: elf he
doesn't Sign the Jay treaty"
George Washington delivered thirteen
messages daring the eight years he
served, and Jefferson delivered twenty
three; Madison, twenty five; Jackson,
seventeen, aud Monroe, thirteen. Both
Jackson and Washington delivered fare
we'll addresses; and W2saiaetol'5 fare
well address is said TO have been written
by Alexander Hamilton and Jlmes
Madison.
Jsckson's best messages Gre said to
have been plagiarized. Major Lewis and
Henry Lee wrote his first losUguFsl, sud
Edward Livingstone wrote the famous
notification proclamation.
Daniel Webster revised II sErisou's In
sugural, and he tried 10 dictate 10 Tyler
whist to write.
Harrison's WAS the lo0gest Inaugural
address ever delivered, and it contained
over 5000 words. Polk wrote The p0xs
aud the shortest ever delivered was that
OF George Washington 81 MS 81 cond term,
and 1t contained only 134 words. The
character of President can De sometimes
told by his use CT the personal
pronoun. The cOnceis Of Van Buren,
makes him use the word "I" thirty eight
times i'll his inaugural, aud Frsukiin
Pierce used it twenty five times. WASH
ingtCn's first inaugural contains twenty
EGGS, and his second only six President
Cleveland WAS the most modest IF the
Presidents. He used opp only five times
ten, Hayes sixteen, Grant twenty-fcur,
Buchanan thirteen, John Quincy Adams
fourteen and Monroe nineteen.
The grestest of our Presidents have
been the modestest, and LlDcolD, st his
second term, delivered an inaugural in
which only once was personal pronoun
used.
The Presidents messages have often
been stolen in the past, and one of
Grants messages was read by the coun-
try day before Congress met. A syndi-
cate of newspaper men paid govern
ment printer $1,000 for copy of one of
Hayes messages, and the correspondents
in the syndicate were to psy him $500